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#216815
Topic
My new "toy"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216815/action/topic#216815
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My mother and her brother were looking through some old things at my grandmother's house and decided to open an old safe that my grandfather had (he died five years ago). There were some guns in it (which my uncle took), along with this, which my mother took for me (with my grandmother's blessing):

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/machete.jpg

It's a 19.5 inch long machete. I'd like to get it sharpened and cleaned. The edge is slightly curled at some points, so he obviously used it for something. He may have used it when they cleared a section at the back of the yard to put in horseshoe pits a long time ago.

Size comparison with a butter knife:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/machetebutter.jpg
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#216813
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Photography submit your pics!!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216813/action/topic#216813
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I'm not really much of a photographer, due to lack of skill and lack of good equipment, but this one turned out very well:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/Gingerhappy.jpg

Here are a few other fun pics:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/squirrelfeederlookclose.jpg
(it's inside a bird feeder I had attached to the kitchen window)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/squirrelstretch1.jpg
(it's, um...sunbathing? They actually do this a lot!)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/Linkx5.jpg
(shot through the glass in the front door of my house)

And here's an unusual one my brother took a few years ago:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/Ripplin/crazygoose.jpg
(no idea why it turned out that way, but it sure is unique!)
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#215862
Topic
What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215862/action/topic#215862
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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Why was the Greedo scene in there at all if there was going to be a Jabba scene ten seconds later?

Yeah, they could have added a line for Greedo so he says something like "oh, Jabba's over at your ship, by the way." And as someone else pointed out, it's better not having that scene in there at all, as it shows the Falcon (not a lot of it, but still) and that kinda spoils Luke's reaction to seeing it later on a bit. We see that dirty old "piece of junk" the same time he does without any hints of it before, and that's kinda nice.

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#215452
Topic
What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215452/action/topic#215452
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I feel the same with the Ewoks. They were never my favorite, and I like them less now than when I did as a child, but they're ok. They spawned a good cartoon and two fun movies, after all. Of all the kid-friendly additions to the movies, they're one of the least "offensive," I'd say. And though it was goofy, I still love the scene where the Ewok (Paploo?) steals the speeder bike!
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#214586
Topic
Lucasfilm lunch hour
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214586/action/topic#214586
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Good points, Invader. I've said similar things myself about how he won't stop tinkering with them until the day he dies. That's just the way it is because he's such a perfectionist. But changes that are viewed as beautiful to one person may seem ugly or just plain unnecessary to others.

The comment about them releasing an ultimate edition after he dies could very well happen (even if he puts a "don't you dare do what I think you'll do!" clause in his will?). It happened with the anime "Metropolis." The creator, Osamu Tezuka, said he never wanted that comic series made into a movie, but after he died, they did it. And it was wonderful! But then the guys that did it joked (perhaps half joked) that now Tezuka's ghost will haunt them.
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#213856
Topic
The Official Lucasfilm Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213856/action/topic#213856
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Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
And I lost faith in THX certified videos in 1995 when the THX certified Stargate laserdisc came out with......a defective soundtrack!

That stinks. Another "how did that get by so many people?!" moment that shows that even the most impressive/influencial of companies can have ridiculous quality control issues.

I also once had a bad experience with THX. I used to have a job that had me spending a couple of weeks at a time in Michigan (I live in Ontario) and one time, I decided to buy an Onkyo receiver at Circuit City, mostly because it was "THX Certified" and I was looking to upgrade my sound system a bit anyway. I was convinced that because it had THX on it, it would be great! Well, it turned out that there was a constant hissing noise that wouldn't go away. The kind of noise you get if you turn the speakers way up while nothing is playing. The DSP modes were pathetic once I tried them, too. I'm sure it was more down to the machine than the THX certification, but still, I was highly annoyed, especially since I wasn't able to return it before the limited warranty was up. I ended up trading it towards a new Yamaha, which was a million times better anyway. Oh well...

P.S. I read your article "The Anamorphic Issue" at UGO, Neil, and it was very thorough. Thanks for a nice informative read!
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#213622
Topic
Lucasfilm lunch hour
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213622/action/topic#213622
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Originally posted by: Obiwampa
"I dont think it occured to anyone that it would be necessary to specify that they be high quality."
I don't know if this is right, but I figure it was assumed by many since the site began that if they did release them on DVD, it would be at least up to current DVD standards, which we know they aren't going to be.
"Now things have changed. Lucasfilm needs to know that we will not take this sitting down. They need to know that if they go ahead with this, _______ will be the consequences from the hardcore fanbase. Who agrees?"

Yes, action still needs to continue instead of walking away defeated, but in the end, it's all up to one man. If he finally caves in and gives us what we want someday, great! If not, we'll just keep on putting that bug in his ear that we don't care if some of the effects are dated, or that continuity may be ever so slightly flawed, etc...we still love the OOT and just want them to get a treatment deserving of their legacy.

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#213596
Topic
Lucasfilm lunch hour
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213596/action/topic#213596
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Nicely written, THX. That's what I'm thinking too, basically. There are people working in Lucasfilm that are as passionate about seeing the OOT restored as well as possible, but they aren't being allowed to do so and I'm sure there are plenty of unhappy people at the Ranch, too, speaking to each other about it in hushed tones.

And yes, the more we talk about it, the more sense it makes that these September sets must sell very well if there's any hope for future, better restorations. No harm in buying them, keeping the "bonus" discs, then sending back the SEs (in resellable or unresellable shape is another thing people can't agree on) along with a polite note.
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#213525
Topic
What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213525/action/topic#213525
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Originally posted by: Dug
Were the troopers "holding back" in ROTJ, too, to allow the characters to escape or win?

Of course! They're the heroes of the movie, after all.

Seriously, though, I never really thought about the "holding back" thing before. It's interesting, but ultimately, the main characters are usually gonna get away, sometimes completely unscathed. The bad guys very rarely get the good guys in cowboy movies and neither do they in Star Wars.

One example is in docking bay 94. It was 7 or 8 stormtroopers in an, albeit short, shootout versus Han Solo and he didn't even get a flesh wound? "Precise" shooting indeed. The best scenario would have been for them to kill Solo, then rush in and grab R2, but they didn't manage to hit him once.
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#213487
Topic
The Official Lucasfilm Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213487/action/topic#213487
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"We had so many requests for these versions, we wanted to find a way to bring those to DVD, and we thought this would be a fun way to do that," Singh said.

Sure, it was kinda fun for them, I suppose, but considering the backlash, I guess it's not so fun anymore. It's frustrating and sad that Lucas can't just leave things alone. I draw, and there always comes a point where I have to stop or I'll just make things worse. When it's done, it's done. I will clean it up a bit if I've scanned it and there was dirt on the glass that showed up on the image, but that's it. Not so with the OT.

"Basically, that means Lucasfilm is asking fans to shell out another $90 (each disc is $29.98) for movies they probably already own — the 2004 restored versions — just to own a sub-par DVD version of the nostalgic theatrical films," Hunt said.

"It’s disappointing on a personal level, and also not in line with the image of Lucasfilm as a cutting edge leader of moviemaking technology," he said.

Such good points. All they'll have to do is print up those new covers, because they'll have so many unsold copies of the SE DVDs already. This whole venture seems fairly cost efficient/high profit for them.
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#213316
Topic
The Official Lucasfilm Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213316/action/topic#213316
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
Some of us have jobs, wives, and girlfriends.

Er, I mean ...

I hope she doesn't read this.



For some reason, that reminded me of a funny bit that a comedian named Sean Keane once did. He's standing there adjusting the mic, not saying anything, then blurts out "oh, my girlfriend died!... It's been two weeks, but it's only now that I can laugh about it... I was gonna go to her funeral, but I couldn't find a date... I asked her sister, but apparently she had some family function to attend."